-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:06:17 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about "[gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?":
>Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, >2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). > >Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go >directly to `make menuconfig`? For some years now, make menuconfig has performed a silent make oldconfig before it brings up the menu. I stopped using make oldconfig in about 2007, after I was confident that the change to make menuconfig was working. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====================================================================== dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) ====================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk42lHgACgkQRQ2Fs59Psv8qGwCeMv0fJ2mF8WcPm620U3m2iM5Y usYAnR2lUFi2jgBCmLDOIqAEZ22tzM7m =uV/i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
